Overview
- Detectives say a scheduled January review will determine whether to close or pause the inquiry after exhausting practicable lines of enquiry.
- DNA testing linked babies found in 2017, 2019 and January 2024 as biological siblings, each left in bags in the same east London area and found alive.
- The Met and NCA built a putative maternal DNA profile, ran familial matches and used a geographic profiler who narrowed a likely catchment to roughly 400 homes.
- Officers knocked on more than 100 doors and travelled across the UK to seek voluntary DNA from potential relatives flagged by partial Police National Computer matches.
- Investigators believe the Greenway footpath was chosen for its lack of CCTV, and they say they will act on any new intelligence as senior officers note the mother may have left the area or be under control.